The evening passed quietly for everyone, as Rae worked to recover from her bath, and harden her new shell.
The visual changes were subtle, just a bit more shine to her chitin. But the composition was completely different, with the innate blessing of the Totem Ranked beasts imbued into every cell. That explained to her why the effect couldn't be dispelled.
The divine blessing became part of you, not an effect that was placed upon you. So, it couldn't be removed from you any more than another body part.
Tian was confused by the concept. He was born this way, so he had never considered that others could just adapt and gain the innate blessings of the Stonefur Divine Fox species.
The Karl had done it, but he was a strange creature to begin with, and Rae was a spider. Tian thought that he understood how spiders worked. At least until he saw Rae advance.
They used to have one that guarded the door to the den, while his mother lured prey for it to eat.
